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Samuel Beckett - Watt - 9780571244744 - 9780571244744
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Watt

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Description for Watt paperback. Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while the author was hiding from the Gestapo, this title tells the tale of Mr Knott's servant and his attempts to get to know his master. Watt's mistake is to derive the essence of his master from the accidentals of his being, and his attempts to 'know' ultimately consign him to the asylum. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.

Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while Samuel Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo, Watt was first published in 1953. Beckett acknowledged that this comic novel unlike any other 'has its place in the series' - those masterpieces running from Murphy to the Trilogy, Waiting for Godot and beyond. It shares their sense of a world in crisis, their profound awareness of the paradoxes of being, and their distrust of the rational universe.

Watt
tells the tale of Mr Knott's servant and his attempts to get to know his master. Watt's mistake is to derive the essence ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571244744
SKU
9780571244744
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 and graduated from Trinity College. He settled in Paris in 1937, after travels in Germany and periods of residence in London and Dublin. He remained in France during the Second World War and was active in the French Resistance. From the spring of 1946 his plays, novels, short fiction, poetry and criticism ... Read more

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